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Why State funding for Child Welfare Society is critical

The Child Welfare Society of Kenya social workers supply food, clothes and school items to pupils at the Mavuno IDP Camp in Lamu West.[Kiundu Waweru]

In the recent Cabinet approval to merge and dissolve some State corporations, it was also ordered that professional bodies categorised as state corporations be declassified and denied budgets.

Among the batch of organisations to be defunded was the Child Welfare Society of Kenya (CWSK), although its charter does not define it as a professional body.

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